The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.

So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. [Lat., Non sest aliena res, quae fere ab honestis negligi solet, cura bene ac velociter scribendi.]